Can't update tzdata_2009o Hardy

Bug #480638 reported by Peter Lloyd
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: tzdata

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
Release: 8.04

tzdata:
tzdata_2009o+repack-0ubuntu0.8.04.2_all.deb

Time zone and locale:
:~$ cat /etc/timezone
Europe/London
:~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Packages fails to updaate in Synaptic and in apt.with following output at the terminal:
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2009o+repack-0ubuntu0.8.04.2_all.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `gtk2-engines-pixbuf' contains empty filename
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2009o+repack-0ubuntu0.8.04.2_all.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks for your help

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 11 11:00:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: files list file for package `gtk2-engines-pixbuf' contains empty filename
Package: tzdata 2009n-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: tzdata
Title: package tzdata 2009n-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `gtk2-engines-pixbuf' contains empty filename
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-25-server x86_64

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Peter Lloyd (pjlloyd) wrote :
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

The error is
 files list file for package `gtk2-engines-pixbuf' contains empty filename

This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 108189, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report.
Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

affects: tzdata (Ubuntu) → gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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